Ramjee Singh is author of 'A Plea for Global Democracy'.

Professor Ramjee Singh’s (born 1927, India) life has been a blend of being an Gandhian academician as well as an activist.  Academically, he has earned three Doctorate degrees, a Ph. D. in Jainism, a D.Litt. in Hindu thought and another D. Litt. in Political Science  in Gandhism and was awarded Emeritus Fellowship.

He has authored and edited about 50 books mostly on Gandhism and Indian Philosophy and Culture. He was also Vice- Chancellor of the Jain University, and a panel speaker at the International Philosophical Congress (Brighton) and at Parliament of World Religions (Chicago, 1993), and Cape Town. (2001). He was Secretary and President of All India Philosophical Association for about 12 years and is currently the Vice President of Afro-Asian Philosophical Association etc.

 As a social activist he participated in freedom movement of India in 1942 under Gandhi’s leadership and also suffered imprisonment for 21 months when the Indian government had suppressed all civil and political rights and imposed Emergency in 1975-77. He has also raised his voice against inhuman blinding of under- trial prisoners in jail before the Supreme Court and had moved a PIL for the protection of the rights of the landless people. As a Gandhian peace activist he has organized about 70 youth peace camps and helped to set up Departments of Gandhian Studies and Peace Research through the country from the time he was President of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies until present.

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